WILSON, James. Dunning, Pertshire 27.2.1853 — Crieff, Pertshire 22.9.1926. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. John Wilson and Jane Boag Livingstone, educated at Perth Academy. Studies at Edinburgh and Oxford (Balliol College). Entered I.C.S. 1873, in India from 1875. Served in the Punjab, then in government…
WILLIAMSON, Henry Drummond. Alvaston, Derbyshire 17.12.1854 — 21.3.1926. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Rev. G.F.W., educated at Rossall School. Studies at Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, B.A. 1877, M.A. 1889. Ordained deacon 1877, priest 1879. Worked from 1877 for C.M.S. at Mandla (now in Madhya Pradesh), until 1893. Then in…
WILLATT, John. 1??? — 19??. British Colonial Officer in India. Major (1941). One Ltn. J.W. served in Italy in WW 1. Publications: With P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar: A Short History of India from the Earliest Times. 6+232 p. Bombay 1928. – A textbook of Urdu in the Roman script. 2nd ed. 1941, 6th…
WILBERFORCE-BELL, Harold. 1885 — Portington, East Riding, Yorkshire 1956. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of elder H.W.-B. and Lucy Wilson. Educated at Ellesmere College, studies at Oxford (Pembroke College). Joined Indian army in 1905, in 1910-40 in Indian Political Service, Agent to the Governor-General in Deccan States Agency…
WHITLEY, Edward Hamilton. Mussoorie, India 1866 — Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire 16.3.1945, when 79. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Rev. —> Jabez Cornelius Whitley (1837–1904, 1890-1904 the first Bishop of Chota Nagpur) and Mary Caroline Whittard, educated in England. Studies at Cambridge (Queen’s College, B.A.). Active at least until 1902…
WHITE, Herbert. 25.8.1857 — 19??. Civil Servant in Sri Lanka (from 1879). Acting District Judge of Ratnapura (1884). Also mentioned as Government Agent in Badulla and Uva, and as the Acting Mayor and Chairman of the Municipal Council of Colombo (1900). Retired before 1919. Publications: Articles on Sinhalese in The Orientalist 1, 1884…
WHISH, Charles Matthew. London 9.1.1795 — Cuddapah (Kadapa) 14.4.1833. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Martin Whish (1743–1826), a Commissioner of Excise, and Harriet Tysson (1765–1841). After studies at Haileybury served in Madras Presidency from 1812, in Zillah Court of South Malabar. Then criminal judge in Cuddapah. He was…
WHALLEY, Paul. Haulbowline, county Cork (or Painswick, Gloucestershire) 19.1.1839 — Vevet, Vaud, Switzerland 1920. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Captain George Briscoe Whalley and Elizabeth Parker. From 1857 studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1861, M.A. 1864. From 1860 in Bengal Civil Service, served in North-West Provinces. From…
WESTPHAL, Rudolf Georg Hermann. Obernkirchen in Schaumburg 3.7.1826 — Stadthagen, Schaumburg 10.7.1892. German Philologist and Musicologist. Son of a mining engineer. Gymnasium in Bückeburg and Rinteln. From 1845 studied theology and classical philology at Marburg, also learned Arabic and Sanskrit (Gildemeister). In 1852 both Ph.D. and PD at Tübingen (für…
WEST, Michael Philip. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (or Bournemouth, Hampshire?) 26.9.1888 — Painswick, Gloucesterhire 19.3.1973. British Teacher in India. Son of Rev. George Herbert West, a Headmaster, and Florence Mary Middlemore-Whithard. After Marlborough College studies at Christ Church College, Oxford. From 1912 worked in Indian Education Service in Bengal. He did important work…